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>> "Jane goes to a party but doesn't want anyone who wasn't there to know. Jane's friends post pictures of her at said party. Now everyone who checks Facebook before Jane sees that she's been tagged in these pictures. Until now, Jane's never really considered that she should screen tags for approval first."

There are privacy settings for this (which I use). You turn on an option that all tags (photos, posts, and check-ins) have to be approved by you before they appear on your timeline (and thus visible to your friends).
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You're missing an important structural difference between psychology and truly scientific fields like physics. The difference is that scientific fields are united by theories that define the entire the field, and that inform all work in the field.

If a particle physicist discovers something basic in his own specialty, it affects all of physics -- for example, the mass of neutrinos or the presence or absence of a Higgs boson. Cosmologists must pay attention to particle physics, even though particle physics and cosmology would seem to be spectacularly dissimilar.

Such a scientific theory is a two-way street. If cosmology comes up with something like dark matter or dark energy, based on solid observation but not explained, this affects particle physics, and work begins immediately to explain what has only been described. The reason is that the central scientific theory, that defines physics, also unites it.

Psychology doesn't have such a theory -- there is no overarching theory that unites the 53 subfields recognized by the APA, which consequently operate independently of each other and of any serious concern about theoretical implications.

So when you say that there is real science taking place in some of psychology's subfields, you're absolutely right. But if someone wants to imply that this means psychology is a science in the same way that physics or biology are sciences, they're absolutely wrong.

> to dismiss all of psychological science as illegitimate is to ignore a tremendous amount of progress in understanding and human well-being that has come in the past century.

When Michelson and Morley falsified the ether theory in 1887, every living physicist knew exactly what that result meant -- it pulled the rug from under electromagnetic theory and left it unexplained. No one tried to say, "but those other physicists are still doing good work." That's not how science works.

I will know psychology as a field has reached the threshold of science when psychologists courageously propose a central, unifying, falsifiable theory, amenable to practical test that, if it fails, invalidates the entire field. And I won't hold my breath for that development.

Physics has such a theory. Biology has such a theory. Geology has one. Any of those theories can be tested -- indeed, is regularly tested --and the failure to falsify those theories is the only reason for the standing of those fields as sciences.

Science is not scientists working in isolation, in a theoretical vacuum, on studies that cannot be replicated, as with psychology. Science is instead the building of a defining theoretical structure, constructed on a scaffolding of evidence.

> and human well-being that has come in the past century.

That claim is completely falsified by the recovered memory therapy debacle of the 1990s, which singlehandedly erased any public goodwill toward the field of psychology and sowed an atmosphere of distrust that will require many years to dissipate. And recovered memory therapy is just one of many examples in recent times that reveal the danger of not shaping a guiding theory that simultaneously informs research and controls the behavior of clinicians.
While it looks cool, it seems to me that it isn't entirely automatic. Sadly the vast majority of people will not go for anything less automatic than Dropbox.
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Sorry, looks like I put the project to early online. Worked fine in my development production but well it's fixed now.
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> Patents are vitally important to protecting intellectual property.

More accurately, patents are vitally important to enforcing intellectual monopoly.

Terms such as "protection" and "property" are so heavily biased in favour of patents that they nearly block any useful discussion. As long as mainstream journals use those terms, the only way forward will be nearly complete lock-down. Now, "monopoly" is also biased. But at least it is technically correct.

Patents are supposed to foster innovation by granting monopolies. I can accept the argument that while monopolies are mean, they're a lesser evil compared to the technical innovation they enable. But replace "monopoly" by "property", and soon we're saying that patents are unilaterally good (and not just a net good). Which is obviously false given the huge legal costs they incur.

But even if patents are a net good, we rarely ask ourselves: can't we do even better? Isn't there any other form of government intervention that would be even more efficient? Could the money that currently goes to patent lawyers be better spent? My current answer is "most probably". Of the top of my head, we could fund another Manhattan project, set up more competitions and prizes like the DARPA challenge for autonomous cars, or allocate more research grants.
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My son was gorgeous. My brain might not have worked properly at that moment (temporary insanity), but he was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. No matter how I look at it, even in retrospect.

I thought all Dad's felt similar.
Yes, you are not misunderstood, there is no need to clarify/interpret this slogan for us. The OP is saying that some mistakes are irreversible. Say, for example, a buggy privacy feature which -- because of fast and loose implementation -- allows users to see previously very private nude pics of a celebrity which he/she had only sent to their partner.

Even if it took only 30 seconds to find the error and the entire site was unplugged from the web so you could fix the bug, the damage is done, it's permanent and it's devastating. Facebook is crossing the line from failures being trivial to failures being potentially catastrophic. Sad, perhaps, by the standards around here, but some people conduct their lives on Facebook -- encouraged by Facebook to do so, mind you -- and you guys are treating it a little more seriously than a hackathon, from the sounds of it.
> Emotion and personality are valid subjects of scientific study as well.

Only if experimental results can be obtained using objective scientific methods, with control groups and strict experimental protocols, and only if the results can be successfully replicated. In other words, they cannot be studied scientifically. That's the meaning of the linked article: no replication. The article doesn't say such studies can be replicated, it discusses how to deal with the fact that they cannot.
Depends on platform. It is under FreeBSD. It wipes the entire userland that isn't part of the base system. That means every piece of software installed from the ports collection.
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Yeah, that's usually how it'd done. But from what I've read (not just from the Nature article, I did actually read his papers years ago), this guy basically founded the entire field of what became "priming". It's all on shaky ground now, whether that's justified or not. I'm not sure it would hurt for him to question his own conclusions, in addition to having others repeat some studies. Time to swallow the pride.

Studies are supposed to be repeatable. But in practice a lot of research never gets repeated. I'm sure he must feel a little insulted to have his life's work called into question, even if the cause is other investigators who were fraudulent or incompetent, or even if the questions are arising only indirectly because of unrelated research that happens to use priming.

IANAS, but psychology is obviously not the hardest of the sciences. I think in other areas like e.g. chemistry and biology, it's more difficult to pass off methods and results that are not repeatable _if_ they are going to be foundational and used for lots of future research by others. If some other lab can't get the right results using your methods, I would think they will make some noise. They might first think they are themselves at fault, but they would probably make contact with others outside their lab and make it known, in some way, that these methods were not working for them. Whereas I can't see that as being as common in psychological research. It's too easy if some method is not working to just "make it work". ;)
It isn't a node.js related problem, but more of a GitHub related problem when a specific issue is deemed to be "legendary". Example: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue...
> Daniel Kahneman calls for ‘daisy chain’ of psychology replications

A welcome and overdue call to action. But I predict the challenge will be ignored, because the practitioners of this psychological specialty know the effort will fail, and that failure will destroy what remains of their credibility.
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"as a kid we played war games outdoors"

When I was a kid (70s) our "war games" were quite remarkably violent - I'm surprised that nobody got killed.

These days I watch my teenage son play rugby - which is itself rather violent (although generally very good natured) and from what I can see it is a pretty good sport for teenagers who like playing it (as my son is going to a rugby-oriented school he is lucky, it must be miserable for kids who hate rugby).
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Great Work. I love these posts on HN where people show case what they hacked on during the weekend. These are the real "builders" or creators out there. And about the negative guys, believe me they have probably never created anything in their life, so don't bother!
At this rate, any of these laws remaining relevant in 2412 is highly optimistic.
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I wonder if the Daltonize! extension for Chrome would be something like that?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-daltonize/e...
It's good to remind us to think about the person behind the product.

I have to admit I was hoping the title was a literal description of the article, because that would be a really interesting read.
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That's pretty rich, maybe they should ban AT&T as a security threat for spying on Americans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A) or hell, why not the NSA too (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/)
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It's amazing how something so seemingly minor can make such a huge difference. I feel like I'm traversing the web of yesteryear (true yesteryear, not the animated gif'd web of 1997). Thanks for the link OP! One critique: The desaturation occurs a noticeable ~300ms after the page starts displaying, which means I always get a brief flash of colour.
Don't use this if you are going to spend money based on the outcome (or do anything else important with it).

People do not have a vested interest in completing the questions honestly or on the outcome. Their motivation is to get to the premium content, and although there will be some that are honest, most people are trying to get "free" content and have the most motivation towards not giving value (money or answers that betray their privacy/thoughts) back.

My day job is primarily based on analysing survey results, and I can tell you that the only way to get decent usable results from "paying" people is to make sure that they have a vested interest in the results of the survey and that the payment is a (nice) side-effect of completing the survey and not the goal.

Edit: Of course, this type of survey can be useful if you need to "validate" something that otherwise you can't (i.e. to falsify results). Simply choose multiple choice questions and stack the answers in the right order (people usually click in certain pattern when doing it at "random"). Keep repeating or extending your survey until you have the right ratio of participants in favour of your preposition, then call it a day and publish!
This is inane, frankly. There are people who code to a much higher standard than this. People live and die by the code they write, so they can't accept "things break all the time ..." and forget about writing correct code.

See for example: your car, your bank (not the website, the backend), the space shuttle, the Fed, anything important. Some places cannot accept the supposed fact of frequent outages and failure, and engineer for that reality instead.

I don't know how you're concluding that the hackday coding methodology creates more secure code, unless you are simply unaware of the industrial standards to which other fields' programmers are held.
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This forces people to test and comment on the functionality rather than simple aesthetics.
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I'm surprised there haven't been more parodies of GitHub out there, or did I not look hard enough?
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The word "joke" appeared nowhere in the title or story.

He's being prosecuted under section 127 of the Communications act:

"The Communications Act 2003 section 127 covers the sending of improper messages. Section 127(1)(a) relates to a message etc that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character and should be used for indecent phone calls and emails. Section 127(2) targets false messages and persistent misuse intended to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety; it includes somebody who persistently makes silent phone calls (usually covered with only one information because the gravamen is one of persistently telephoning rendering separate charges for each call unnecessary). [...] Section 127 can be used as an alternative offence to such crimes for example as hate crime (including race, religion, disability, homophobic, sexual orientation, and transphobic crime), hacking offences, cyber bullying, cyber stalking, amongst others.

"

http://www.cps.gov.uk/legal/a_to_c/communications_offences/#...
That would be a specious and incredibly naive argument. First A (unpatented invention), then B (success), ergo A causes B -- is that the proposal here? Wouldn't I just have to show the existence of only one invention which became popular, despite being patented, to disprove this? (If I didn't reject it on the grounds that it is fallacious reasoning)

Yes, you could argue that he would not have been eulogized, but you would need to have a better argument and it would be speculative at best.

Edit: sorry it's late, not trying to be a dick.
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It could easily be argued that google is using their search monopoly to exclude less capitalized competitors from developing mobile operating systems by selling below cost, which harms consumers by reducing competition and choice.

That sounds almost sensible until one realizes then when you say using their search monopoly what you mean is using the money they make from search.

By that logic NO profitable business would ever be able to move into another line of business. Also, that isn't what anti-trust law is about.
Doesn't the principle of universality of computation mean that any processing that happens in a human brain, i.e., "intelligence", can also happen on another computing platform, with sufficient time and memory?
> Association between violent video games and aggression among adolescents

Another trash psychology study that takes a correlation and tries to claim it's a cause-effect relationship.

> In the past 2 decades, correlational and experimental studies have found a positive association between violent video game play and aggression.

"Correlational ... positive association ..." Indeed. Everything but the words "one caused the other."

"Sustained violent video game play was significantly related to steeper increases in adolescents' trajectory of aggressive behavior over time."

Yes, and still a meaningless correlation. Did the video game cause the aggressive behavior, or the reverse? Or is there some third factor that caused both? We don't know and this study can't tell us. I am perpetually amazed at what passes for science among psychologists.

"Our findings, and the fact that many adolescents play video games for several hours every day, underscore the need for a greater understanding of the long-term relation between violent video games and aggression, as well as the specific game characteristics (e.g., violent content, competition, pace of action) that may be responsible for this association."

Here, by trying to claim a cause-effect relationship but one not based in evidence, the psychologists cross the line into pseudoscience. There is precisely zero scientific evidence on which to base a claim that there is a cause-effect relationship between aggressive behavior and video game play (or the reverse). All we can say for sure is this is what the researchers hoped to find.

A real scientific study would empanel two groups of teenagers as identical as possible, force one group to play video games, and forbid this activity to the other group. About that proposal I can say three things:

1. It would qualify as science in a field with copious amounts of pseudoscience.

2. It would be unethical in the extreme.

3. It will never happen.

This study is a perfect picture of "psychological science", which is to science what military music is to music.
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Depends. For whom?

* Employed individuals, probably not.

* Self employed individuals, yep.

* Businesses, yes but it's mostly subjective, interpretational, perceived importance.

And remember, there are always exceptions to every rule. :)
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It only happens occasionally on bugs issues that get a lot of attention (by being posted to HN for example, sorry about that). Usually GitHub issues threads are sensible and helpful places.